On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have some thoughts around this, but am in the middle of a conference > (in a break right now) so I'll just throw out this list of links for > now: > Hi Udhay, I hope the conference went well. I would definitely want to hear more of your ideas (maybe we can meet up for a coffee or something and I can pick your brains :) ) and see what you might have to offer. The few times we have talked, you have always given me new ways of looking at things and perspectives which sometimes, I might not have encountered before. If you have the time, maybe you can also meet up Ashish and have a conversation there. > > Thoughts about publishing and content: > > http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html<http://www.earlham.edu/%7Epeters/fos/fosblog.html> > http://playfullibrarian.blogspot.com/ > http://thedigitalist.net/ > I am familiar with the playfulllibrarian and the digitallist. But thanks for bringing them up again. I am going to include them in my bibliography for ashish to read. I will check out fosblog tonight and see what it has to offer. > > Actual acts of commission: > > http://craphound.com/content/ > http://twobits.net/ > Thanks for actually pointing out a couple of instances. I think this might help Ashish and me the most in trying to figure out what it is that we are grappling with. Because like all good customers, we are not particularly sure about what it is that we want to do, but we are definitely sure about what we don't want to do :) > > Both Cory Doctorow and Chris Kelty are on silk. I hope they chime in > on this thread. Additionally, maybe Gautam has some thoughts to share. > I am also hoping that Cory and Chris will have suggestions to make. They have already made interventions in their own work about the digital book or what it means to have a book online... and I would like to see if I can get some advice there. Gautam... this is where we might be able to find ideas for collaboration and working together institutionally :) > > The theme I'd suggest is to take advantage of the inherently > many-to-many nature of the medium to make the book a *conversation* > rather than a discourse. > > http://www.cluetrain.com/ > This is a question that we are trying to grapple with. Ashish, for example, had an idea of developing a discussion based analysis and conditions of multiple authorship. But we are still vague about it and it will take time in trying to understand and concretise the idea. > > Apologies if this is a rehash. > > Udhay > -- > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > cheers Nishant -- Nishant Shah Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore. Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org ) Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09 # 0-9740074884
